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Chemistry World
November 27, 2006 |
Q&A: Polonium-210 Polonium-210 is reported to have caused the recent fatal poisoning of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko. Here's an interview with John Emsley, author of Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about polonium-210 poisoning.   |
Reactive Reports
Issue 60
David Bradley |
Networking Neural Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes may be the key to building cyborg type interfaces between biology and electronics. |
Science News
November 25, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Birds Don't Have to Be So Hot The U.S. Department of Agriculture revised downward, by 15 F, the internal temperature that a cooked turkey must reach in order to be safe to eat. Whether consumers find the meat palatable or rubbery at 165 F is another issue. |
Chemistry World
November 23, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Bacteria That Help Fight Cancer Scientists have given a new meaning to the term `friendly bacteria' by discovering a bacterial protein that helps treat cancer. |
Chemistry World
November 23, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Unfolding Peptide Watched in Real Time Researchers have observed a peptide molecule changing shape in real time. The ultrafast process was monitored using a technique called transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy. |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients. |
Smithsonian
November 2006
Eric Jaffe |
Unwelcome Guests A team of researchers has discovered a pattern in the gypsy moth's advance that might go a long way toward curbing the American invasion -- a battle that has cost roughly $200 million in the past 20 years. |
Chemistry World
November 16, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly. |
Bio-IT World
November 2006
John Russell |
Pathway Pioneers Innovative uses for pathway tools and exciting results from early users are sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain -- albeit following a few harsh winters. And the usually risk-averse pharmaceutical industry has led in adopting pathway tools. |
Bio-IT World
November 2006
Robert M. Frederickson |
Managing Data on the Go GeneGo has created a suite of software and database products that aim to facilitate analysis of the biology behind different types of high-throughput experimentation and understand the effects of small molecule drug compounds in human tissues. |
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